"It is high time we paid tribute to those who sensed the direness of the moment and immediately sprang into action on that terrible day, exploiting it for personal gain," Sen. Lindsey Graham R-SC said Tuesday.

Both actions made the German people realize the direness of the situation and prodded the Reichstag parties out of their slumber; the collapse of Bulgaria also dealt Germany a massive military blow by opening a gap in its defenses and cutting the link to Turkey.

However, increasing questions had at last forced a reluctant Fandral to alert his fellow druids—if not the rest of the race—of the direness of the situation, hence the overriding reason so many had come to this sudden convocation.

In the face of the congress 'failure to hone and pass a sensible health care bill in a sensible time span; and since the situation as a result has reached crisis proportions, such that I must act and take measures commensurate with the direness of the situation.